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Saturday, July 27, 2024
Not Much of a Book Person, our Nelly
NJ Arts reviews the play The Bookstore by Michael Walek:
He [Spencer] is not much of a book person: When asked to tell them the last book he has read, he says “Wuthering Heights” but then adds, “I didn’t read it as much as read the Wikipedia page.” (Jay Lustig)
The Hollywood Reporter carries the news of the death of the actress Pat Heywood (1931-2024):
Pat Heywood, the veteran Scottish actress who made her film debut as Olivia Hussey’s nurse and confidant in Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, has died. She was 92.Heywood died June 26, the Scottish Daily Mail reported.During her four-decade career, Heywood portrayed the maid in the manor at the center of Freddie Francis’ horror comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1970) and the wife of British serial killer John Christie (Richard Attenborough) in the Richard Fleischer-directed 10 Rillington Place (1971). (Mike Barnes)
She also played Ellen Dean in the 1978 TV series Wuthering Heights.
Classic books that will enhance your understanding of the world according to Times Now News:
Charlotte Brontë’s 'Jane Eyre' is a compelling exploration of personal strength and moral integrity. The novel tells the story of Jane Eyre, an orphaned girl who overcomes a harsh childhood to become a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester and faces numerous challenges that test her resolve and character. Through Jane’s experiences, Brontë addresses themes of love, independence, and social criticism. The novel's rich character development and Brontë’s keen insight into human nature create a narrative that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Jane’s journey from oppression to self-realization continues to inspire and captivate readers. (Girish Shukla)
A new video of The Brontë Sisters takes us to "where the Brontë Story started", in Guiseley, where Patrick Brontë married Maria Branwell at St Oswald's Church on December 29, 1812.
The Saturday events of this year's Emily Brontë's birthday weekend at the Parsonage:
In-person crafting workshop with Charlotte DawsonSaturday 27 July, 2pm - 3:30pmMake your very own ‘Little Book’ just like the Brontës, as we celebrate the 206th anniversary of Emily Brontë's birth!The Brontë children created many miniature publications during their childhood, scribbling words and drawings on every scrap of parchment they could find, including an Epsom Salts wrapper! The imaginary worlds they created were inspired by their own experiences and toys given to them by their father.In this workshop, artist Charlotte Dawson will help you conjure your own imaginary worlds, creating stories and drawings in a miniature, folded publication to take home. All materials are provided and will either be recycled or repurposed - in true Brontë style!
An in-person poetry workshop with Nabeela AhmedSaturday 27 July, 10:30am - 12pmThis weekend, we're celebrating the 206th anniversary of Emily Brontë's birth! Join Bradford poet Nabeela Ahmed for a poetry workshop rooted in all things wild...Nabeela will help you craft poetry inspired by the theme of nature in Emily's work, and the wild characters in the Brontë novels. Drawing on her own multi-lingual writing practice, Nabeela will encourage you to incorporate different languages and dialects into your poems.We're delighted to welcome Nabeela back to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, following her popular workshop for the Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing last year.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Iconic female leads in The Times of India:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëJane Eyre is the story of an orphaned girl who overcomes a harsh upbringing to become a governess at Thronfield Hall. Jane's character is iconic for her strong sense of morality, independence, and determination to live life on her own terms. (Aakanksha Sharma)
Cortland Standard talks about the awards received by the musical In Emily's Words which has been performed by SUNY Cortland students:
SUNY Cortland students have helped shape the creation of an award-winning new musical.The show “In Emily’s Words” follows the life of Emily Brontë, the author of “Wuthering Heights,” as she discovers her passion for storytelling while navigating the plotlines of her novel.The musical took home four awards, including best new musical, at the New Works Festival, held in New York City from May 28 to June 8. The festival highlights plays and musicals ready for their first developmental production, the SUNY Cortland website says.Jessy Tomsko, who wrote the music, lyrics and script, aside from Brontë’s contributions, said she first read “Wuthering Heights” 15 years ago. She always wanted to write a musical adaptation of the novel, but shelved the project for a while after not being able to think of the perfect angle.“I was out walking in early 2020, and suddenly the idea came to me, literally stopping me in my tracks,” Tomsko said. “Emily Brontë herself would be the main character, and the story and its characters would come to life in her eyes – interacting with her, trying to control the narrative; fighting for their agency and immortality.”The festival is put on by CreateTheater, a company that develops playwright’s ideas until the show is ready to be staged. In February, the company put on readings of “In Emily’s Words,” at SUNY Cortland, starring the school’s musical theater students.Olivia Celis, who played Brontë, wasn’t even aware she was up for best female lead in a musical when she found out she won.“I’ve always wanted to be a part of a workshop of a musical, and it’s been everything I hoped it would be,” Celis said. “We got to learn original music, I got one-on-one time with the director, Kevin Halpin, to dig deeper into my character and her objective in the show, and the entire cast and creative team just got creative and had fun with what’s been given to us.” (Lily Byrne)
The Olympian talks about the current Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland:
Of the six plays currently running, just three — “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Macbeth” and the rarely presented “Coriolanus” — are by Shakespeare. Also happening are three contemporary plays, including an adaption of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre.” (...)Williamson’s “Eyre” showcases the feminism of Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic romance, widely considered the first feminist novel, and offers reminders — including costumes in which women wear pants beneath open-front skirts — how little has changed since Brontë’s time. (Molly Gilmore)
DC Theater Arts covers the current performances of Jen Silverman's The Moors in Washington D.C.:
Faction of Fools practices the Renaissance-era form of commedia dell’arte. The company’s philosophy also encompasses the notion of paradox: They infuse the tradition of masked physical comedy with contemporary ideas, making it fearfully and wonderfully accessible to a modern audience.The Moors, inspired by the Brontës, is like that too; it is demonstrably designed to be happening right here, right now. (...)As in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the governess Emilie (Jasmine Proctor) arrives at a house in the middle of the mysterious moors. Unlike the reticent and morally exacting Jane, Emilie is giddy and eager to please. She is intrigued by letters she has received from a “Master Branwell” and looks forward to meeting him and assuming her position. Proctor’s performance as Jasmine is full of lightning changes of mood and exceptionally perceptive. Her character is one audiences can identify with amid the madness all around. Her rendition of “Emilie’s Song” is tender and moving.Her prospective employers are sisters, like the Brontës. The older one, Agatha (Arika Thames), is high-handed and fond of domination. The younger one, Huldey (Natalie Cutcher), is something of a romantic and appears slightly insane. The physicality of their characters is always surprising, sometimes entertaining, sometimes terrifying. The Brontës’ obsession with creativity is evoked by Huldey’s diary and her dream of being a famous writer. (...)The moors, pictured behind the main setting, are also a major character. In a letter, Charlotte Brontë notes that a local newspaper described her home thus: “situated amongst the bogs and Mountains and until very lately supposed to be in a state of semi-barbarism.” Charlotte herself states, in another letter, that “we live a long way from towns and people hardly wish to take the trouble of crossing the mountains which form a barrier round us.” They too both hide and reveal. Emily, Charlotte said, was at her happiest there. (Sophia Howes)
It seems that the creators of a new production of Wuthering Heights in Sevastopol are using music by Philip Glass without his consent. Shocking, piracy in occupied Crimea, who could imagine that. You can read in Limelight, Stereogum, The Daily Beast or Slippedisc:
The composer has sent this missive to the Sevastopol Opera and Ballet Theatre:It has come to my attention that a ballet entitled Wuthering Heights featuring my music and using my name in its advertising and promotion is to premiere in public performance at your theater in Sevastopol next week.No permission for the use of my music in the ballet or the use of my name in the advertising and promotion of the ballet was ever requested of me or given by me. The use of my music and the use of my name without my consent is in violation of The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works to which the Russian Federation is a signatory. It is an act of piracy.I am well aware that the current circumstances in occupied Crimea leave me powerless to assert my right under international law to prohibit this act of piracy. But I shall make my vehement objection to it known should you proceed.Be guided accordingly,
Zee News lists books about love you should read:
Wuthering HeightsThe book is a dark and passionate tale of the intense love and revenge between Heathcliff and Cahterine Earnshaw and is written by Emily Brontë.Jane EyreWritten about an orphan named Jane Eyre who falls in love with the enigmatic Mr. Rochester, the novel is a gothic romance penned by Charlotte Brontë.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever stuff: The Isle of Thanet News, AFP...
Her film career included significant roles in various genres. She starred in Antonioni's "Le Amiche" (1955), which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and played a key role in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960). Furneaux also appeared in horror films like Hammer's "The Mummy," peplum productions, and psychological thrillers such as Polanski's "Repulsion" (1965). Her work spanned British, Italian, and French cinema, showcasing her versatility as an actress.
She also played Catherine Earnshaw in a CBS 1956 production of Wuthering Heights with Richard Burton.
The Washington Post talks about the moment she knew she was in the production:
The Washington Post talks about the moment she knew she was in the production:
After Ms. Furneaux co-starred in Ray Milland’s crime drama “Lisbon” (1956), a Hollywood production shot in Portugal, she returned to the theater for a Shakespeare tour in India. On her return in 1958, she stopped in Rome for a short holiday. A call came from the office of American producer and talk show host David Susskind, who wanted to cast her in a CBS television production of Emily Brontë's novel “Wuthering Heights.”“I screamed,” she told the Daily News. “I was so excited! America at last … I caught the next plane out, without even seeing the Colosseum.” (Brian Murphy)
A couple of new Emily Brontë alerts at the Bronté Parsonage Museum for tomorrow, July 27:
An in-person creative workshop with Paulina SpucchesFriday 26 July, 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Brontë Parsonage MuseumAs part of our celebrations over Emily Brontë's birthday weekend, we invite you to explore the power of imagination with illustrator Paulina Spucches.Delve into graphic novel creation inspired by the Brontës, learning the step-by-step process of storytelling, storyboarding, and drawing to adapt a Brontë extract into your own graphic narrative.All ages and skill levels welcome!
An evening talk at The Brontë Parsonage Museum.Friday 26 July, 7pm - 8:30pmThis month's Parsonage Unwrapped takes a detailed look at Emily Brontë’s life and work, exploring exciting objects from the Museum.Showcasing selected items from the world’s largest collection of Emily’s manuscripts, drawings, and personal artefacts, the evening offers a unique insight into Emily as a writer, artist, daughter, and sister.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Suffolk Gazette takes a journey through GCSE English Literature:
Take ‘Jane Eyre’, for example. This novel not only tells a compelling story of romance and mystery but also provides commentary on the position of women in Victorian society. Students can analyse how Jane’s character challenges the expectations placed on women of her time, considering her pursuit of independence and equality.
Fine Books and Collections highlights an auction taking place today:
PBA Galleries sells 426 lots of Children's Literature on Thursday. Rating the top estimate is a first edition copy of Jane Eyre (1847), expected to sell for $10,000–15,000.
07/25/2024 11:00 AM PDTLot #240First Edition of Jane Eyre by BrontëPublisher:Smith, Elder & Co.Date Published:1847Description:3 volumes. [2], 304; [2], 304; [2], 311, [1] pp. This copy does not include the half-titles or advertisements, and lacks one leaf in volume 1 with pp.82-83. (8vo) 19x11.7 cm (11½x4¾"), period half calf, marbled boards, all edges marbled. First Edition.One of the cornerstones of modern English literature. Reportedly only about 500 copies were printed in the first edition, which was also the first book published by any of the Brontë sisters. The novel has been credited with popularizing the notion of the "self" in literature, certainly establishing the idea of women as agents in modern literature rather than passive subjects. One of the most popular of all Victorian novels, considered risque in its time and unsuitable for young ladies despite the uplifting moral that love conquers all. Volume 3 with the expected pagination errors: p.32 for 23, and p.225 for 252.Condition:Moderate binding wear, calf dry, lettering pieces mostly wanting, some cracking to joints; armorial bookplates, gentle toning, foxing to outer leaves including titles, but generally clean inside with only rare stains; very good.
Times Now News lists quotes defining love and loss:
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” - Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëEmily Brontë’s 'Wuthering Heights' delves into the intense and tumultuous nature of love. This line reflects the profound connection between Catherine and Heathcliff, suggesting a bond that transcends physical existence. Their love is portrayed as something almost supernatural, a force that binds them together beyond the limitations of their earthly lives, illustrating the depth and complexity of true love. (Girish Shukla)
Broadway World reviews the Washington D.C. performances of The Moors:
“The Moors,” which premiered in 2017, turns out to be its own takeoff on a very specific genre — the windswept romantic dramas of the Brontë sisters, but retold in contemporary language, where the principals are entirely women and the action can go very wrong.The Faction of Fools version of “The Moors,” then, is a further variation on something that began as a variation. So while it’s a laudable venture, it can also get a bit weird. (Roger Catlin)
The Freeman Courier (South Dakota) has a local announcement:
Drama was presented by Freeman Academy in 2017; will take the stage April 3-5The program committee charged with producing the Schmeckfest musical announced late Tuesday afternoon that “Jane Eyre” will be staged as part of the 2025 festival. The musical drama will be presented each evening of the 64th Schmeckfest Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, as well as an opening-night performance on Thursday, April 3. It will be under the direction of Jill Hofer.
This podcast (Las Voces de XL Semanal) published on ABC (Spain) claims to tell the story of the Brontë sisters in less than ten minutes. We haven't listened to it, but if its credibility is to be judged by the photo illustrating the article, don't expect anything good.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in The West Australian, Dubbo Photo News, Tipp Mid West Radio, South Western Times, Athol Daily News,,,
The Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal readers choose Wuthering Heights as one of their favourite summer readings. A letter in the Yorkshire Post expresses concern about the change in government and what it might mean for the acceptance of projects such as the Walshaw Moor Windfarm and its potential effects on the landscape of the area.
Our annual Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing is back from Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September!We're celebrating contemporary writers and
artists through this year's theme, Webs of Childhood - tying in with our 2024 special exhibition on the Brontës' younger years.The festival's focus is literature for children and young adults, and we're excited to welcome a host of fantastic speakers and workshop leaders (including our headline speaker, Dame Jacqueline Wilson!) to help us explore the theme.Whether you're a writer, a reader, or simply interested in reminiscing about your favourite childhood books, we have talks and workshops for all ages.
Zoom: Thursday 25 July, 7:30pm - 8:30pmAn online poetry workshop inspired by Emily Brontë.Join Bradford poet Nabeela Ahmed for a poetry workshop rooted in all things wild... linked to our weekend of celebrations for Emily Brontë’s birthday.Nabeela will help you craft poetry inspired by the theme of nature in Emily's work and the wild characters in the Brontë novels. Drawing on her own multi-lin
gual writing practice, Nabeela will encourage you to incorporate different languages and dialects in your poems.We're delighted to welcome Nabeela back to the Brontë Parsonage Museum, following her popular workshop for the Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing last year.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
What's the book that the writer China Miéville recommends over and over again? According to Elle:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Hardly original, I know, but it just never ceases to offer more, even as it also mysteriously withdraws, this epochal novel. (Riza Cruz)
iNews selects classic novels (not the usual ones) for this summer:
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966)Jean Rhys’s moody, tropical prequel to Jane Eyre is as much of a must-read as Brontë’s original. A feminist addition to that most famous of gothic novels, it imagines the backstory of the wife whom Mr Rochester was keeping in the attic. Antoinette Cosway, who grows up in Jamaica with her widowed mother, is later set up with the elusive Rochester in an arranged marriage. As Eyre readers will know, he renames her Bertha – a symptom of his determination to strip her of her identity. Wide Sargasso Sea flips between perspectives, and keeps you on your toes until the very end – it’s gripping, moving and, with its colonial themes, highly political. (Emily Bootle)
The Handbook reacts to Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights project. And some scattered Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever news here and there like this one in The National Tribune,
An alert for tomorrow July 25 in Haworth. A presentation of the collective poetry book No Net Ensnares Me:
7PM on Thursday 25th July 2024Cobbles & Clay 70 Main St Haworth BD228DPCome celebrate the launch of a new collection of poems inspired by the Brontës and the wild.Edited and curated by Ian Humphreys, ‘No Net Ensnares Me’ is an anthology of prose poems written by over twenty authors from West Yorkshire and beyond, including poets of national prominence.Ian – who was writer-in-residence at the Brontë Parsonage during the Museum’s ‘Year of the Wild’ (2023/24) – will be joined by several of the book’s contributors. Each reader will share their Brontë-inspired poem alongside other work of their own.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
About Insider interviews broadcaster and children's author Dawn-Maria France:
Jackie Thomas: You were honoured and named the Yorkshire inspirational woman alongside notable figures like baroness Betty Boothroyd and the Brontë sisters. How did that make you feel?DM.F.: Seeing my name alongside Baroness Betty Boothroyd, The Brontë Sisters, and Dame Judi Dench was surreal. It filled me with pride and a sense of achievement to be named among the women I deeply admire and respect. It’s a memory I will always cherish.
The Times lists the best heritage railways in the UK:
Keighley and Worth, YorkshireThe Railway Children, based on a story by E Nesbit, was first made into a classic film in 1970 and was filmed on Yorkshire’s Keighley and Worth railway. This line is no stranger to compelling fiction, with one of its stops being Haworth: the home of the Brontë sisters. The steam railway was originally funded by local mill owners and runs for five miles between Oxenhope and Keighley. Train buffs particularly love its wuthering heights, with great pillars of steam and the sound of the hard-working locomotives echoing off steep valley sides. The Dales National Park lies just north. (Andrew Earnes)
Emily Brontë vivió tan solo 30 años, de manera tranquila y discreta, aunque legó uno de los libros que siguen editándose debido a su espléndida narrativa: Cumbres borrascosas, novela que nació como producto de un propósito común, acordado con sus dos hermanas, Charlotte y Anne, de escribir una novela cada una. Con esta edición conmemorativa del segundo centenario del nacimiento de Emily Brontë, ilustrada por Bastian Kupfer, Alianza Editorial celebra a la autora por todo lo alto. Ideal para coleccionistas y amantes de los libros bellos. (David Rocha Molina) (Translation)
More Bastian Kupfer illustrations of the book can be found on juliocesarabadvidal, Excentriks or on Tejiendo críticas en la sombra.
El País (Spain) explores Jane Austen's England:
Sin ir más lejos, la escritora española Espido Freire ha sido una de las que más ha ahondado en su pasado. Su obra Querida Jane, querida Charlotte permite desvelar esta fascinación, no solo por Austen sino también por las hermanas Brontë, también coetáneas. Espido se adentra en el mundo, la vida y la obra de estas escritoras que con tan poco, aisladas, en una situación de precariedad, enfermedad y pobreza consiguieron escribir obras universales. (Sara Andrade Abad) (Translation)
More The Most Wuthering Heights Ever Day alerts (including one in the Yorkshire Dales) and photo collections: Craven Herald & Pioneer, Wagga Wagga Council News, Lancashire Evening Post, Blue Mountains Gazette,
Moviefone announces with some delay the Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights film project. And although is not exactly Brontë-related we cannot not recommend the new British Airways Safety Video made by Uncommon Creative Studio. More About Advertising put it like this:
More Bridgerton than Jane Eyre or Austen, it includes a witty “D’Arcy coming out of the lake” moment to remind passengers about life vests. As is de rigeur with these films, it features real British Airways staff – 40 in total – but thankfully gets a good performance out of them, courtesy of director Sharon Maguire who is best known for the Bridget Jones movies. (Emma Hall)
Folded MapIllustrated by Martin ThelanderParis GrafikISBN: 978-9198945607July 2024Reader, even though Charlotte Brontë uses fictional names, it is possible to roughly locate the places she so vividly describes in her beloved novel from 1847. This illustrated map shows the places Jane Eyre visits and it also features an illustrated map of the novel’s main characters.Contains an illustrated map, not the full text. A3-format, folded to A6-format. Printed on recycled paper.
Monday, July 22, 2024
This is how the senior editor of the current edition of The Atlantic Daily newsletter, Matt Season is described:
Matt enjoys watching Kate Winslet play against what one might call her English-rose type, would bring the audiobook of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette to a desert island, and returns often to a Robert Frost poem that is both nature writing and its complete opposite. (Isabel Fattal)
Curtain Call interviews Jennie Greenberry who is Jane Eyre at the current production at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR:
“Jane is the kind of person I deeply admire and strive to be,” Greenberry said. “So, of course I jumped at the chance to portray her. I love that she’s so self-assured and maintains her personal integrity, regardless of the situations in which she finds herself.”Greenberry also respects her character’s character. Although Jane has experienced a lot of trauma for someone so young, she doesn’t let that dim her kindness, compassion, joy or curiosity.“She possesses the kind of strength I think few people have, and I love getting to explore that,” Greenberry said. (Jim Flint)
The Midnight Circle's Wuthering Heights tour is coming to Henley. The Henley Standard is delighted:
Director Nick Benjamin has co-devised the adaptation along with members of the cast, who are all in their twenties or thirties.He says: “Wuthering Heights is so much more than just a love story. It’s a story of passion, revenge, ghosts and past wrongs.“Catherine and Heathcliff are not your conventional lovers, they are elemental, two fires on the verge of destroying each other.“We haven’t gone too far away from the actual set text because that is when you start getting massive complaints from people going, ‘This is not Wuthering Heights’.“However, it is such a big book and it’s such an in-depth narrative, there were certain bits that we had to leave out and others we wanted to bring in a bit more.“We’re focusing on the idea of the moors being almost like a secondary character.“The moors represent the spirit world to a certain degree and a lot of the cast, when they’re not on stage as a main character, take on the role of sort of an elemental moors spirit. (...)Nick, who plays Mr Lockwood as as well as directing, says the company felt the need to perform the story outdoors.“A regular theatre space would have quashed the very nature of the piece,” he says. “I’ve seen quite a lot of reviews of other Wuthering Heights stage shows which said that it was very hard for them to be driven along on this story of nature when you were enclosed by four walls.”Niamh Handley-Vaughan, who plays Catherine Earnshaw, adds: “The reason we wanted to do it outside is because nature is such an integral part of Wuthering Heights so it made sense.”
The Berkshire Eagle covers the performances of Poor Herman by Elizabeth Doss where the legacy of Herman Melville's epic literary failure 'Pierre; or the Ambiguities' is examined. The play contains the following dialogue:
AUGUSTA [MELVILLE]: This new book is a ROMANCE mother! Written in the style of the Bell brothers’ Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre! Perhaps all will go well and Herman will find a whole new audience! (...)HERMAN: You want to be my ghostwriter?AUGUSTA: I’ve read Wuthering Heights backwards and forwards. Let me help you find an audience of thousands.
El Debate (Spain) talks about writers famous for just one novel:
Emily fue la segunda de las tres hermanas Brönte (sic). Charlotte, autora de Jane Eyre, era la mayor y Anne, la menos conocida de ellas, autora de La inquilina de Wildfell Hall, la menor. Emily Brónte (sic) murió a los 30 años de tuberculosis solo un año después de publicar Cumbres borrascosas, el gran clásico de la literatura. La trágica historia de amor de Heathcliff y Catherine que causó impresión en su tiempo desde casi todos los puntos de vista: su trama, su estilo y su fuerza invencible e inmortal en el poderoso contraste con la siempre delicada salud de su autora. (Mario de las Heras) (Translation)
Let’s not underestimate the fascinating ability of the author (or editor) of the article to write Brontë in creative and incorrect ways.
We have some Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever updates. Basically from Australia, New Zealand, UK and Ireland: ABC (Australia), The Irish Times, Lancashire Evening Post, Otago Daily Times... Quotes about moving forward, including one by Charlotte, on Pinkvilla. AnneBrontë.org describes Ellen Nussey’s first visit to Haworth Parsonage and. her reminiscences, particularly her vivid description of that initial visit,
A couple of recent bachelor thesis:
Karla Fernández MoraBellaterra : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2024Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) is one of the most well-known gothic novels from the Victorian Era. Even though its motifs and themes have been thoroughly studied, the neverending contradictions portrayed in its Byronic heroine have yet to be fully disclosed. This thesis analyses the different psychological antitheses that can be found in key scenes and chapters throughout Jane's journey. This approach will be carried out using the psychological theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leon Festinger (1957). The analysis will provide an introspection on how Jane Eyre develops and overcomes cognitive dissonance throughout her journey as heroine and Bildungsroman.
Aleksandra KowalewskaUniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, 2024My bachelor's thesis is an exploration of masculinity centered on four male characters drawn from different literary eras. The reason for this analysis is to highlight the evolving representations of masculinity in English literature, and to investigate the ways that various societal norms and factors affect men's behavior. I have chosen two of Jane Austen’s novels Emma and Pride and Prejudice for Romanticism, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë for the Victorian Era and a contemporary novel titled Normal People by Sally Rooney. The analysis provides an outlook on the chosen periods and describes their social norms, movements and expectations that were placed on men during each era. Furthermore, it utilizes sociologist Raewyn Connell's theory of masculinity to recognize the type of masculinity that every character represents and the meaning behind them. By examining each narrative, it is addressed how the chosen protagonist accepts or rejects the various conventions that are placed on their masculinity. Moreover, by depicting their relationships with the female protagonists along with other secondary characters, it demonstrates how human interaction translates into their behaviors and decisions. The thesis showcases the evolving understanding of gender roles, social class, and emotional vulnerability. It is divided into five sections: an introduction, three chapters, each of them devoted to one author and era and a conclusion.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The Sunday Times talks about a new podcast by Elizabeth Day, How to Write a Book. We don't know if we have to laugh or cry:
The author and podcast host — who presents the chart-topping How to Fail with Elizabeth Day — is producing a series of “podclasses” that will teach a skill over 12 weeks. The first series, How to Write a Book, will be hosted by the author Sara Collins, the literary agent Nelle Andrew and the publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove. They will share their expertise and give listeners exercises to inspire them. (...)The group wants the podcast to be accessible, and its references run the gamut from Peaky Blinders to the reality show Love Is Blind and the film Cool Runnings. Day says one of her favourite exchanges is when Lovegrove admits that she has never read a Jane Austen novel and says she hates “English love” because it is so repressed. “I was somewhere the other day and we were getting confused whether it was Jane Austen or the other one, the book,” she says. She means Jane Eyre. Andrew recoils in mock horror. (Rosamund Urwin)
The Telegraph interviews the broadcaster, Peter White
Peter White and I are discussing the books he is currently reading. As ever, he says, he has several on the go: a crime novel by the Norwegian writer Anne Holt; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë; (Lucy Denyer)
The New York Times vindicates the works of the Southern writers Harry Crews, Barry Hannah and Larry Brown:
Like the filmmaker Mike Leigh, Harry, Barry and Larry refused to condescend to working-class people. (One character in “Airships” announces, to no one in particular, that he went to junior college, “which is to say, I can read and feel fine things and count.”) Crews and Brown knew what it was to chop cotton; Brown worked factory jobs. They were in absolute sync with the world’s misfits, dissidents and jokers. All three had a mistrust of authority. Few writers have better lived up to Charlotte Brontë’s epic declaration in “Jane Eyre”: “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” (Dwight Garner)
Christian Today recommends 'misunderstood' classical books for Christian book clubs, and makes a very particular reading of Jane Eyre:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëLike Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, modern literary interpretations of Jane Eyre tend to inaccurately impose modern ideas onto it. It is often described as a great feminist work, due to the independence and struggles of the novel's female protagonist. The assumption is that Eyre, and Brontë, disliked Victorian patriarchy just as much as today's women do.Not so, according to the Ignatius Criticial Edition. "One of the finest novels ever written, Jane Eyre is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature," says the series website. "Whereas most modern teaching of the text misreads or misinterprets Charlotte Brontë's devout and profoundly ingrained Christian faith and intentions, this critical edition emphasizes the semi-autobiographical dimension of the novel, exposing feminist critiques of the work as being woefully awry and illustrating Brontë's belief in the hard-earned, hard-learned blessings of sanctity and reverence."Readers of the work can reflect on questions such as: how should a Christian cope with suffering, with unmet desires, with heartache? How can such trials be used to develop virtue? (Heather Tomlinson)
Let's change religion now. The Jerusalem Post reviews the book The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic by Gila Fine. Of course is no surprise to know that
The title references Mr. Rochester’s lunatic wife, Bertha Mason, locked up in the attic of the grand house in which Jane Eyre is employed as governess.The Madwoman in the Attic was a 1979 breakthrough book by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar examining Victorian literature from a feminist perspective; Fine’s rabbi’s attic provides the space for her eagle-eyed research into Talmudic females. (Pam Peled)
The Indian Express recovers the story of the singer Talat Mahmood:
The Partition and the formation of East Pakistan massively affected the film industry in Calcutta. Talat’s acting career, too, was tanking. This is when he decided to move to Bombay. Here he met noted composer Anil Biswas who had heard his Bengali songs and gave him one of his career’s biggest hits – the pathos-laden Aye dil mujhe aisi jagah le chal in Arzoo (1950), a film that was brd on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Biswas was impressed with the tremolo effect, the quiver that made Talat unique and according to Biswas, “hard to copy”. Picturised on Dilip Kumar, the pain in the song, of not being able to be with one’s beloved, is palpable as Talat sings Duniyaa mujhe dhudhe magar, Meraa nishaa koi na ho. (Suanshu Khurana)
A former church in Oakworth which may become a three-bed home in The Telegraph & Argus.
de Emily BrontëTranslated by Miguel Pérez FerreroIntroduction by Virginia WoolfAfterword by Ángeles CasoArpa EditorialISBN: 978-84-19558-93-0July 2024En una gélida noche de tormenta, un hombre busca refugio en Cumbres Borrascosas. Allí, en la casa que corona los páramos de Yorkshire, conocerá los tumultuosos acontecimientos que desolaron el lugar años atrás: una trágica historia de amor y venganza entre Heathcliff y Catherine Earnshaw, dos seres indómitos, pero incapaces de rehuir la naturaleza destructiva del amor.Publicada en 1847, obtuvo de inmediato el favor del público lector, aunque la crítica la consideró entonces una novela «inadecuada». Pero fueron el tiempo y la mirada feminista quienes realzaron aún más el majestuoso trabajo de Emily Brontë, consolidado hoy como un clásico de la literatura inglesa y universal. Magistral en la construcción de la trama narrativa, en la singularidad y fuerza de los personajes, Cumbres Borrascosas es una epopeya de ecos góticos y dramatismo shakesperiano, que explora los aspectos más oscuros y apasionados del ser humano.La presente edición incluye, a modo de Posfacio, una invitación a su lectura a cargo de la novelista Ángeles Caso. Gran experta en literatura inglesa del siglo XIX, sus esclarecedoras reflexiones nos ayudan a comprender las circunstancias inauditas que hicieron posible la creación de Cumbres Borrascosas, así como las claves de su profundísima modernidad.
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Times Now News and must-read classic books by female writers:
Jane Eyre is a pioneering work in the genre of the Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel. Charlotte Brontë introduces us to the resilient and independent Jane Eyre, an orphaned girl who endures a harsh childhood to become a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a deep and tumultuous romance. The novel explores themes of morality, religion, and social class, and is celebrated for its strong, complex heroine who asserts her sense of self in a restrictive society. (Girish Shukla)
Her Zindagi also has a list of the best top-rated books (somewhere by someone):
4. Wuthering Heights by by Emily Brontë
Wutherig Heights is the first and only book of author Emily Brontë, it is a captivating tale of intense love and obsession set against the dramatic backdrop of the Yorkshire moors.
Emily Brontë's novel offers a unique blend of passion, mystery, and complex characters, making it a timeless classic that explores the darker sides of human nature and relationships. Its powerful storytelling and atmospheric setting will keep you intrigued from start to finish. (Shivangi Prajapati)
Stars Insider lists "the best romantic movies of the golden age of Hollywood":
Wuthering Heights 1939Emily Brontë's sad, haunting 1847 tale of Heathcliff, his love for Catherine, and his inability to find true happiness, is brought to life on the big screen by Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon.
The Times looks into Great Britain vs France in an imaginary cultural olympiad:
Hang on a minute. We did produce Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Eliot, Wordsworth, the Brontës: all capable of shaping a decent sentence or two. “Nineteenth century British literature is superb,” [Agnès] Poirier concedes, “but British music, painting and sculpture of that period look parochial.” (Kevin Maher, Laura Freeman, Johanna Thomas-Corr, Carol Midgley, Clive Davis, Will Hodgkinson, Debra Craine)
International Times reviews the recent concert by The Unthanks in Todmorden:
At this concert they featured songs from Molly Drake, mother of singer-songwriter and musician Nick Drake along with songs based on the words from the writings of the Brontë sisters.Todmorden, like Haworth, the home of the Brontës, is in Yorkshire’s Pennines. Somehow, the Unthanks’ style of almost minimalist music, with its intensity, piercing harmonies and sometimes off-kilter time changes seems at one with the local landscapes.
LoveEXPLORING lists the most underrated small towns in historical English county;
Although very little of it remains, the beautiful hamlet of Wycoller still has much to offer lovers of the English picturesque. Largely abandoned in the 19th century, when it was due to be flooded to make way for a reservoir, it now consists mostly of atmospheric ruins, including 16th-century Wycoller Hall which is thought to be the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. (Cath Pound)
The writer Sandra Comino recommends some books in Clarín (Argentina):
Cuando tenía ocho años fue cautivada por un clásico: Jane Eyre de Charlotte Brontë. Aún conserva el ejemplar que tiene escrita la fecha y el nombre de quien se lo regaló. Lo recuerda así: "Una niña huérfana que vivía con una tía malvada, la mandan a un internado tremendo, luego trabaja como institutriz, pero nunca se victimizaba, al contrario. Una chica que se reinventaba todo el tiempo y nunca se daba por vencida. Este libro aparece en La Casita azul". Así, su propia obra homenajea a aquellas primeras lecturas. (Débora Campos) (Translation)
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever in Preston and Dunedin (New Zealand) in Otago Daily Times (and here), Lancashire Post, and The Stuff. The Brontë Sisters YouTube Channel visits the Bradford Literature Festival on its Brontë Day:
Come with me as I have a day out at the Bradford Literature Festival 2024 for their Brontë Day in the Midland Hotel. Spend the day with me getting my Brontë-themed stall ready and get a taste of the talks by distinguished authors and scholars on Anne Brontë and her other Brontë family members.
A recently published poetry anthology:
An anthology of prose poetry inspired by the Brontës and the wild
Edited by Ian HumphreysCalder Valley Poetry
Poems by Nick Allen, Liz Almond, Anthony Costello, Molly Prosser, Natalie Rees and Clare Shaw. From April 2023 to March 2024, Ian Humphrey held the position of writer-in-residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Throughout his tenure, he delved into the writings and biographies of thesisters while exploring Haworth Moor and its surroundings. This experience led him to craft a series of original poems inspired by the Museum's 2023 theme: Year of the Wild. Visitors can now enjoy these creations through Poetry in Parson's Field, an outdoor poetry exhibition located behind the Parsonage, available until the end of August. Additionally, Humphrey's latest compilation, Tormentil, showcases these inspired works.
The book was recently (July 2) presented at The Dusty Miller in Hebden Bridge.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Tatler makes a case for what Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights will look considering how it matches some Saltburn topics (which is a fancy way to see that they speculate just for the hell of it and that way they have a zero-cost article to publish):
In many ways, Wuthering Heights matches Saltburn’s freak. It’s a novel where themes of class antagonism, jealousy, revenge, and infatuations that veer on the macabre, come to the fore. But don’t expect this to be any sort of staid sequel: the book demands discussions on female madness and rage, on unreliable narrators, horror, hysteria, and the supernatural - so ghosts, hallucinations, dreams and visions - feature heavily.But much like Saltburn, there’s more depraved yearning than actual sex; expect visually dense scenes, laden with symbolism and psychologically charged suspense. This adaptation of Wuthering Heights is likely to push viewers to think about reaching the extremes of the psyche… and what happens when a collection of characters (who, frankly, are all a bit too closely related) fail to restrain their turbulent emotions – and what grave consequences unfold. (...) (Charlotte Rickards)
And the thing goes on mentioning graves, locks of hair, Caspar David Friedrich, and what else.
Samatha Morton, who was Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre 1997, describes her life in music for Uncut:
Cocteau TwinsI got out of London around 2007 or 8. I was trying to create this haven for my new baby, so we moved to this farm in the Peak District. It was a really special time living in this amazing Bronte-esque landscape, quite isolated but feeling really powerful. I’d heard the Cocteau Twins a lot growing up but hadn’t really had their records. So I bought the CD and I totally immersed myself, walking on the moors for hours with my baby, being taken to these other worlds.
Graphic Policy lists their favourite comic B-sides from Phonogram:
“Wuthering Heights”And Indie Dave gets to experience real life almost immediately in the next B-side, “Wuthering Heights”, a beautiful silent comic that is an homage to the Kate Bush song of the same name. Emma Vieceli handles art duties in a style that’s manga meets fantasy landscapes. Unlike the woman in “She Who Bleeds for Your Entertainment”, the female lead of this comic runs, frolics, and dances providing the magical energy for Indie Dave’s journey of self-discovery in the form of a Kate Bush compilation tape. Instead of being cloistered in his room, Indie Dave sets off for the great outdoors with Bush’s ethereal music in his ears and The Dreaming and The Kick Inside in his bag. Indie, artsy music is still his passion and maybe a security blanket, but at least, he’s touching gorgeous Vieceli-colored greensward. (Logan Dalton)
The Boston Globe interviews the writer Marcela Fuentes:
Amy Sutherland: Do you have favorite malas — bad girls — in fiction?Marcela Fuentes: I love Catherine from “Wuthering Heights.” Wow, she’s such a terror. Look at Maleficent, we love her even more than Sleeping Beauty. Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” is one. I don’t know if there are any in Jane Austen’s novels because everyone is too uptight but Libby in “Pride and Prejudice” will tell you off. There’s the housekeeper in “Jane Eyre” and the housekeeper in “Rebecca.” Watch out for housekeepers. There are so many amazing, powerful but villainous women in stories. We might not cheer for them but they are sometimes the most compelling characters.
A play performed in Oakworth with an Emily Brontë character.
Keighley Youth Theatre presents
Rebel Girls
Oakworth Methodist Church, Oakworth, BD22 7HN
Fri 19th July 2024 - Sat 20th July 2024Our next show Rebel Girls is about an evil sorceress that threatens villagers so they call on heroes from history to protect them. But instead of knights and centurions they get Boudicca, Emily Brontë and an Instagram influencer. Adventure, comedy and 80s and 90s music as the rebel girls take on magic and misogyny as they battle the witch.
Further information on Keighley News.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Daily Mail talks about the upcoming Wuthering Heights project by Emerald Fennell and does what a proper journalist of the current era should do. Look into X for comments of "fans" which as usual are the proverbial collection of gloomy, bitter, and delusional usual suspects. Why on Earth a news media gives them visibility outside the social network ghetto is beyond us. Harper's Bazaar (Mexico), Movie Struckers (Italy) also talk about the project.
Collider recommends Jane Eyre 1944:
While this 1943 film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name may not be on the same level as the 2011 one (especially for audiences who like modern films), the Robert Stevenson picture is certainly worthwhile. As expected, the story centers around the titular character, played by Joan Fontaine, hired by the lord of a mysterious manor house, Edward Rochester (Orson Welles in one of his best roles), and tasked to care for his young daughter.Jane Eyre is a solid adaptation of a classic literary tale, which, like many other great classics on this list, is available to stream for free on the digital platform. Stevenson's black-and-white film's stunning cinematography of the brooding Jane Eyre plays a huge part in what makes it appealing. However, the acting performances — particularly by Fontaine, who brings the heroine to life flawlessly — are also worth a mention. (Daniela Gama)
Now that The Moors is performed in Washington D.C, The Washington Post interviews the author of the play, Jen Silverman:
A comparable alienation initially haunts the governess who arrives at an isolated mansion in the Brontë-spoofing “The Moors.” The mansion’s inhabitants — including two “spinster” sisters (as the cast list calls them), a maid, and a mastiff who falls in love with a moorhen — go on to reveal startling vulnerabilities and execute shocking power plays. (...)An avid reader, Silverman wrote the play fast after being immersed in Charlotte Brontë’s letters. “The way in which Charlotte was talking about isolation and intimacy — and the geography of the place, how it was essentially a character — all of that started infiltrating my mind,” they say. (Celia Wren)
Mundo Diners (Ecuador) talks about the installation Cráteres de abismo by the artist Nebraska Flores
La sala está prácticamente a oscuras. Las figuras de papel solo reciben haces de luz como si fuesen disparos, proyectando sombras alargadas en pisos y paredes. Hay un aire misterioso en la muestraSus esferas de papel, como cascarones de huevos, estallan engendrando estalagmitas y estalactitas que no son el resultado del agua escurriéndose por los minerales de la tierra, sino de trocitos de novelas y poemas. Su materia prima son las palabras y, por eso, el arte en esencia pura. (...)‘Cumbres borrascosas’, una de las novelas favoritas de Flores, está allí, aunque es casi imposible precisar dónde. Y así hay cientos de páginas que se han convertido en una obra distinta a la original y con su propia fuerza. (José Luis Barrera) (Translation)
The Wuthering Heights Red Dress Day celebrations are announced on Glasshouse and Maleny Country News. On the Brussels Brontë Blog we see how Emma Conally-Barklem, a Yorkshire poet, combined a Pink concert with a Charlotte Brontë-inspired tour in Brussels. Pauline, the blog author, guided Emma through Brontë locations, discussing "Villette" and Emma's poetry collection "Hymns from the Sisters," which pays homage to the Brontë sisters.
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